A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 3 The Matchmaker Comes to the Door
Early the next morning, around five o'clock in the morning, Bai Xia was woken up by a rustling sound.

She listened attentively to the movement outside, there was the sound of a fire in the kitchen.

A smell of rice came, stimulating her stomach that had been hungry all night, and she listened carefully to the movement in her ears.

Mrs. Lin made a bowl of thick porridge, and hurried back to her room with it, put the porridge on the low table in the room, and gently called Li Xiuyuan to get up.

With Li Xiuyuan's sleepy face, he dressed and wiped his face, and fed him mouthfuls of porridge, then went out with the bookcase in one hand and the sleeping Li Xiuyuan in the other.

It dawned early in summer, and after she spent a while, the sky outside had already started to get dark, so she wasn't afraid to lose sight of the road when she went out now.

After she went out, Bai Xia also opened the door, first slipped into the kitchen to take a look, the iron pot was clean, not even a single grain of rice was left.

She knew it.

How could Mrs. Lin give her a meal? In this family, except for the treatment that brat Li Xiuyuan received, even Mrs. Lin herself didn't eat an extra meal.

It is hopeless to expect to eat the food stored at home, and Bai Xia doesn't bother to steal the food that is not much in the family.

Lin's people are very pungent, and they didn't treat the original owner very well, they were just eating and using, and apart from caring for Li Xiuyuan, they didn't treat the original owner particularly harshly, let alone she saved the original owner's life after all.

Bai Xia felt that he was a conscientious person, so he would definitely not be able to do something like stealing food.

Mrs. Lin sent Li Xiuyuan to the private school, and it took half an hour to come back. Bai Xia went back to the room, took off the only shabby bed curtain, wrapped it in her arms, and went out.

She avoided people all the way to the small river ditch. First, she dismantled the tent, washed it in the river water, and then tore it into strips one-tenth the size of her little finger and put it aside for later use.

She didn't start to weave fishing nets until she tore all the tents into strips, not the kind of nets for fishing from top to bottom, but the kind of nets that can be pulled from one end of the river to the other.

Block the entire river channel. When the fish pass through, because the mesh is too small, only the head of the fish can pass through. When retreating, the fishing net line is stuck at the gill position of the fish, and a lot of fish can be caught when the net is lifted.

Bai Xia had seen nets made of extremely thin fishing lines before, and he didn't know if any stupid fish got into this fishing net made of silk.

The ditch in Lijia Village is not very big, and a fishing net woven from strips of cloth torn from a tent is big enough.

Bai Xia tied the lower end of the net to a stone, tied the upper end with a rope, put the net into the river, and tied the ends of the rope to the trees at both ends of the river.

What she was looking for was a place with dense trees, where it was shady, and there were not many people coming.

I hope the fish in this ditch are a little stupid!

Bai Xia muttered something in her heart, straightened up, only to feel dizzy for a while, she was so frightened that she hurriedly supported the tree next to her, but luckily she didn't fall into the river.

Rubbing her hungry stomach vigorously, Bai Xia didn't intend to go back right now, so she turned and left the river and walked up the mountain.

Along the way, he could see villagers working, but Bai Xia avoided them, gathered a few handfuls of wild vegetables on the mountain, and walked inside, but there was no sign of wild game.

Is this mountain so barren?
She searched unwillingly, but there was still no sign of game, so she had to go home with wild vegetables in her bag.

It was just dawn when she went out, but when she came back now, the sun was already high.

It was also estimated that Mrs. Lin should have gone to the ground, so she went back, otherwise it might be the scene of a disaster.

Bai Xia walked slowly, observing the farmlands passing by while walking, some fields had only a thin layer of water, and some were even dried up.

At this moment, the rice had just headed, and it was the time when there was a shortage of water. Bai Xia looked around and saw the villagers carrying buckets to the river to fetch water to irrigate the farmland.

Others are making ridges to avoid water loss in the field.

These are all physical tasks, and I don't know how Lin did it alone.

Bai Xia thought in her heart that she would soon arrive at the door of the house, but she had just arrived when she heard voices coming from inside.

Lin didn't work in the fields?

Surprised, Bai Xia carefully approached the door and peeked in, and saw a woman wearing yellow coarse cloth with slender eyebrows and long eyes sitting in the main room talking to Mrs. Lin.

"If you want me to say, why do you do this, sister?"

"Brother Jialin has been there for several years. You took Yuangeer alone, and you brought an oil bottle behind you. Rice and food are not enough these days. See how thin you are?"

"This field is full of coolies, how long can you survive with your body?"

"If you want me to say, there is no man in this family."

"Then Li Sansheng is a widower, but he has no parents above him and no children below him. If you follow him, then he must treat Brother Yuan as his own son."

"As for the girl Sanya, you rescued her with good intentions. You just need to bring a brother Yuan. That girl will send someone to collect some dowry. When you marry, you can also have some money of your own."

The woman chattered endlessly, and Lin didn't even have a chance to interrupt.

Lin's complexion was a little ugly, taking the opportunity of the woman to take a breath, she hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, I don't want to marry"

This woman is none other than Li Xiuyuan's daughter-in-law. Her maiden name is Xu, and she is called Li Xu. She came to Li's house now to serve as a matchmaker for Lin's family.

Li Xiuyuan's father went there when he was one year old. It turned out that he was a scholar in the village. He died on the way to the exam. Everyone in the village felt sorry.

At that time, Mrs. Lin was still newly married, and her natal family immediately wanted Mrs. Lin to go back to her natal family to remarry. However, Mrs. Lin had a good relationship with her husband and had a young child to raise, so she resolutely refused to remarry and broke contact with her natal family.

In the past two years, I have sold the family's belongings and treated them properly, and finally pulled my son to five years old and sent him to a private school to study. Life has become more and more difficult.

Her natal family never mentioned the matter of letting Lin Shi remarry, but her husband's clan couldn't sit still anymore, and people frequently came to the door to protect the matchmaker, wanting to promise Lin Shi out.

No matter how capable the Lin family is, she is just a widow who has lost her husband, and her son is still young. If she comes and goes, how can she be an opponent of the clan.

From Bai Xia's point of view, what the Li family valued was not whether Lin would remarry, but the few acres of land deeds she held in her hands.

In the past two years, the harvest has been getting worse and worse, and every household has no surplus food. The Lin family, who was not very conspicuous at first, attracted people's attention because of the few acres of land left by her deceased husband.

But she is still just a widow, and she is too busy with a few acres of land, so she gave the clan a chance.

You see, you are a woman with children, how can you do so much work, you can't do without a man in the family, blah blah blah.

From Bai Xia's point of view, Mrs. Li might not be able to get rid of her today. The people who came over the first few times also implicitly asked Mrs. Lin to remarry, but after being rejected by Mrs. Lin, they left quickly.

Today, after Li Xu's rejection by Lin's, he sat still and had no intention of leaving.

(End of this chapter)